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...about the Undergraduate Council. I have always just stayed away from the U.C. because Rudd Coffey has been involved and, well, enough said. But this year, I even picked a candidate I really liked. Yet, in the end Matt Bakal lost to Rob Hyman (who I wasn't that fond of, either); but the fact is I tried to become involved in that arena this year. I took a risk, and I should get an A for effort or a B for a nice...
Those are two things I can't say for a lot of classes I see weighing down the telephone book I call "Courses of Instruction" (and this has nothing to do with courses on white males, of whom I am quite fond...
...knew better than to try. Clinton delivered a nice eulogy, full of humor and fond remembrance, but he didn't soar. Maybe he was tired of metaphysics; maybe his instincts told him to give it a rest. But when Brown's flag had been folded and taps had been played, Clinton did one more thing in memory of his friend. He got in a helicopter, flew to Baltimore, Maryland, and raked in $800,000 at two campaign fund raisers. If he hadn't gone, Clinton knew, Brown would have raised hell...
...Doug Herzog, the new president of Comedy Central, said the network was not picking up the show. Negotiations to devise a new format were unfruitful; two weeks ago, Herzog gave Best Brains, MST3K's production company, permission to try to sell the program elsewhere. The final new episode--a fond savaging of the sluggish sci-fi teen-angst epic Laserblast--will...
...Brown's body had finally been identified. Famous for his steeliness, Ickes opened the 8:30 a.m. White House staff meeting with the grim news, then issued a call for business as usual. But within minutes he had turned the meeting into an impromptu wake, with staff members swapping fond anecdotes and roguish tales, all of them rich in laughter and full of deep pride in Brown. Even Ickes told...